thrave

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English thraven, from Old English þrafian (“to press; urge; compel; rebuke; argue; contend”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrabōn, from Proto-Germanic *þrabōną (“to press; drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to scamper; trample; quake; tread”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian troawje, droawje (“to trot”), West Frisian drave (“to trot”), Dutch draven (“to lope; trot”), German traben (“to trot”), Swedish trava (“to trot”), Icelandic þrefa (“to wrangle; dispute”). ==== Verb ==== thrave (third-person singular simple present thraves, present participle thraving, simple past and past participle thraved) (transitive, UK, dialectal) To urge; compel; importune. ===== Related terms ===== thraft === Etymology 2 === From Middle English thrave, threve, thrafe, from Old Norse þrefi (“a bunch or handful of sheaves”), related to Old Norse þrifa (“to grasp”). Cognate with Swedish trave, Danish trave. ==== Alternative forms ==== threave (obsolete), threve (obsolete) ==== Noun ==== thrave (plural thraves) (UK, dialect) A sheaf; a handful. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a bunch; a throng. c. 16th century, Lansdowne manuscript The worst of a thrave. === Anagrams === raveth